London, Jan. 21.
A scheme envisaging a United Church of England is outlined in a draft report issued at a joint conference which included the Archbishop of York, eleven Anglican Bishops and, for the Non-Conformists, the Rev. Mr. M. E. Aubrey, Moderator of the Federal Council of the Evangelical Free Churches of England from 1936-37, and General Secretary of the Baptist Union of Great Britain and Ireland, and Dr. A. E. Garvie, Principal Emeritus of Hackney and New College.
The report stresses that none of the uniting churches shall lose its distinct tive traditions.
No form of worship at present used by the uniting churches shall be for-hidden in the United Church.
There will be three organs of Government, namely, a General Assembly, Diocesan Synods and Congregational Councils.
The bishops of the Church of England will be accepted bishops of the United Church, which will be free from secular control, although State recognition will not be excluded.—Reuter.
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